apartment therapy changing the world, one room at a time

My apartment is sad enough that I don't have anywhere this cool film would look cool and not just "look how much cooler this window looks than the rest of the kitchen" :). I could imagine this looking really cool on a glass-edged balcony, or a clear wall divider in an office. Best of luck to those of you who have a place for this!

Not block the neighbors walking around naked that's entertainment. I want to block my walking around naked (hehe).

My children's bedroom. I would divide the film into strips and put them in their bedroom window. Their room don't have much of a view since the neighbor's bushes cover most of the window, so the film in strips would be much more pleasing to look at.

Oh my, I have the perfect spot. When I replaced my roof, I had an additional skylight put in. Somehow I just assumed that it would be translucent, like the original one, but came home to find clear glass. From a skylight diffuse light is really better, so that's where I'd put this film.

I live in a beautiful condo from the early 1900s. The previous owners had the good sense to put re-purposed and beautiful doors throughout the space. There are two, however, that could be enhanced with this film. Our bedroom door is fir with a 2 ft x 4 ft clear glass panel. This film would make the bedroom a bit more cozy, and prevent any guests from (accidentally?) peeping into our bedroom at an inconvenient time (did I mention this would be even easier considering our full-sized mirror is directly across from the bedroom door?).

Also, our front door has a 10 in x 5 in window just above eye level. We can see the tops of our neighbors' heads as they walk by, and from our living room, their faces as they walk down our staircase. I have been meaning to create a piece of stained glass to put in there for some privacy, but it still hasn't happened in 2 years. Maybe I've been unconsciously waiting for this product!

I've found an apartment where there is ample space for myself, many a yard sale couch and chair, my lovely fella, and my two cats. A miracle unto itself, to be sure. However, next to said apartment lives the female equivalent to Redd Foxx - a charming, vivacious, saucy 60-something who is the proud owner of every mangled, gnarly piece of yard furniture in tri-county area. Gazing through the windows of my pretty, roomy abode at her Jenga stacks of rusty metal and potted artificial flowers is less than ideal. Pretty window film, you say? Lay it on me.

My bathroom window to replace el cheapo white plastic blinds! I love letting a lot of light into my apartment, and as a result I'm having an silly imaginary war with my privacy-obsessed roommate - I twist the bar to open the blinds, and he twists them closed! (this happens on a fairly regular daily schedule)

Lovely window film would solve the problem for both of us - privacy and light! (Plus I know he's too lazy/handy-preson challenged to ever try to get it off!)

I would love this for my sliding glass door. I live in a small condo and the sliding door leads out onto a postage stamp patio, which I plan to turn into a tiny zen garden type space. This window film would look great as part of that space and also from the inside looking out. It would provide me with enough privacy to get rid of the ugly vertical blinds that are currently on the sliding door.

I have a great studio with lots of windows (which sold me on the place really) but 2 of them face the ugly never-cleaned "white" walls of the dumpster and motorcycle area.

I would love to use the film to cover the bottom half of at least the window in the main room, so that I can get some more light without looking out at the dingy blah (and straight across at some neighbors).

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so every glance would nurture imaginations
anc cultivate fertile and fruitful initiative

Our house was broken into recently--while we were asleep--and a computer stolen from a front-room table. We never open our drapes, but we had the day before; obviously that allowed our Lower Haight friends to case us out. Now no sunlight enters our house--but film on the lower window would allow us total privacy *and* light.

My husband and I just moved into our third apartment in four years. We didn't have great experiences in the first two (especially the second, with which landlord we're still having issues with) but we're smitten with the third. It's the first place we've lived together that really feels like "home", and we've decided it's the perfect place to start a family together.

When you enter the apartment, you do so through a door that has glass panels framed by wood (like a grid pattern). I've been thinking of ways to cover up the glass panels without actually covering them up, because I do like the look of the door. That means that curtains are sort of out of the question for me. Given that my husband works four nights a week and I'm home alone, I do want to add some kind of layer of privacy so that nobody could look in on me while I'm there alone, but I want it to be pretty. This film would be perfect, cut to fit maybe every other little square, or maybe even all of them!

This is, actually, for a friend, but she doesn't know about Apartment Therapy (I'm working on her, I swear). The backstory is: she lives in a basement unit, in a building that belongs to her aunt (cheaper rent). Her apartment is the only one down there - the rest of the basement is for bike storage and the laundry machines, so that everyone has access to her front door - and her bathroom isn't in her apartment, it's essentially across the hall, except, again, the hall in question is the laundry room. Her cousin lives on the 1st floor with her husband and children, and her aunt lives above her daughter on the 2nd floor. The 3rd floor is occupied by a married couple who have been renting that apartment for the past 8 or so years, so they know the aunt relatively well.
Long story short, the husband on the 3rd floor is a bit of a pervert. He's installed some sort of mirror device (my friend hasn't found it yet) that lets him know when the bathroom light is turned on, so that when she takes a shower she's assured of running into this guy, where he's ostensibly doing his laundry. At 8 in the morning, 9 at night, whenever. Within 10 minutes of her turning on the bathroom light, he's down there.
As well, when he knows she's in her apartment, he takes to walking around in front of her window, hoping to catch her naked? I'm not sure - but she's taped paper over the window, which effectively blocks out what little natural light comes into her apartment.
Yes, she should move, but family and money issues being what they are, that's not going to happen. Her aunt doesn't believe that this guy is capable of being the pervert he is, so all that's happened is that his night-time laundry visits have been curtailed, since no one is allowed to do laundry after 9 p.m. But still. I think these window films would be perfect for her to install on her front windows, maybe even on her bathroom window, so as to minimize the number of run-ins she has with this guy.

i would adore this in my apartment because the people who eat drink and smoke on their roof have quite a view into my bathroom and living room! All the windows are on that side of the apartment, so I havent covered them up, I like to crack the windows a bit now that it's cooling off. Needless to say, they have seen me so clearly walking out of the shower, I waved, smiled, and duck behind the door.

Not to mention, my house has a bird and tree theme!

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My husband and I just bought our first home - a small condo in Seattle's central district. The building was built in the 1920s as a home for unwed mothers, and was apartments for a while and now condos. Anyways, our place is on the lower level - and all our windows look out directly on the the driveway and, yes, the dumpsters next door. I'd use this for my kitchen window, where my kitties love to sit in the sun. The kitchen is painted pale green already - this would be a fantastic touch.

We have two spots where this would be really nice -

1 - our shower has a big ol' window right inside. It's a great light source for the bathroom and hallway so we don't want to completely cover it up.

2 - next to our front door is a window that looks right into our living room straight through to the bedroom. It's not good to be changing clothes when the UPS man rings the door bell. Also, our entry is on the second floor so our view out of this window is the neighbor's roof where he store things like his ladder (?), old ropes, etc - not a pretty view. Again, it's a great source of light so I hate having the curtains closed all of the time.

We bought some of the frosted contact paper, but accidentally bought some with a pattern on it (unless it all comes with a pattern??). Anyway, while it technically works, it looks awful in a cheap-boxy-60's-apartment kind of way. Birds and trees would make a HUGE difference.

I have a great apartment. High Ceilings, a large patio, it even came pre-designed with a fall color scheme. The only problem is, all my windows, which are nearly floor-to-ceiling face the patio which is bordered by a neighboring apartment building 10 feet away. I can never feel comfortable opening my (vertical) blinds because my neighbors' windows in the next building span the entire window lit area in my apartment.

Needless to say, my blinds are rarely open for this reason and my apartment is stuck in perpetual dusk. I use one of those artificial sunlight lamps to try to make it less dismal. I'm not sure if they're ever naked because since their building has about 3 apartments facing mine, I've conceded the battle to majority rule.

I've hung curtains on the Living room windows that closely resemble the shimmery/satin-y look of Birch and Cherry trees.
If I won this window film I would use it on those same Living Room windows to help complete the the tree-like effect. And, I could leave my blinds open perpetually, allowing more light into my sunlight deprived space.

Just yesterday I went looking for window film at Home Depot and was horrified by the options (primarily faux stained glass in variations on 1980s floral patterns). Yes, they had an industrial-size roll of frosted film, but it was expensive and way more than I needed. And then serendipity sent me browsing over here!

You see, I live in an adorable 1920s bungalow court. The problem with adorable bungalow courts is that, while the courtyard allows windows and light and plants and air, you are *very* close to your fellow inhabitants. As in, my overly-interested male neighbor's large front window is directly across from my large front window, and only about 12 feet away. I love light at all hours, I love my view of an avocado tree against the sky, and I hate blinds -- but I also hate knowing that while I enjoy my view, Mr. Comes-by-too-often enjoys a view of me. I'd use the Lov film to cover the lower half of my window, so he can't see me while I'm puttering around, but I can still see out the upper half. And the tree/bird pattern would be a lovely match for the with the real trees and birds outside.

In our "new" house (an 1885 Victorian, actually), my daughter very heroically agreed to let her brother take the brighter, prettier bedroom when we offered to paint the other one the color of her choice. She chose a light green which looks great with the white molding. To keep her room as bright as possible (she has one north-facing set of windows) and to avoid covering the gorgeous period trim (and, um, because we haven't gotten around to it yet) there are no curtains or window-coverings of any sort in her room, despite the view into the neighbors' messy back yard and of the sign for the convenience store around the block. I would love to use this window film for the bottom half of her double-hung windows - it would give her the privacy that 12-year olds deserve without obscuring the charm of the room the the beautiful, if indirect, northern light.

My boyfriend and I are moving into our first apartment together in 2 weeks which is both exciting and frightening. Not only is there a lot of work to be done, but it is a new era and level in our relationship. Not only will we have to learn to live together, but so will our decor styles!

The new apartment has sliding doors that separate the living room from resin sheet serving as a screen. The screen is a little dull and you can see scratches on the screen itself (perhaps from the previous tenant's cats).

I feel that the film would be a beautiful compliment to some of my boyfriend's household items and my own--for example, he has a light blue rug with a tan leaf like motif on it from ikea that we were planning on putting in the living room. I also have a green bird sticker clock (http://dutchbydesign.com/content/products/detail.cfm?Category=Clocks&Product=Bird%20Clock&CatID=9&ProdID=545&r=UK) I wanted to put in the living room.

The film seems like it will tie in these two elements (and my boyfriend and myself, teehee) in both color and style wonderfully!

I would use it on my sliding glass door so the neighbor kids will stop peeping in!

I've been looking for something like this. Other window films are boring, I've considered using wall decals for my problem but this is it!

The 1st place I desperately need it is on my glass shower doors (just the bottom half) so I won't be so bashful when my boyfriend wants to use the sink while I'm in the shower. (I'm sure I could eventually work through this but we just moved in together and I'm shy.)

I'd also try it on a cylindrical clear straw holder that I often use as a vase.

Any scraps from those projects I'd put to use on CD cases. I often give gifts of mix CDs but my fav part is designing the packaging :)

I live on the second floor over first avenue. This would help me feel a little further from the street and the on-coming traffic.

The builders of my house put a round window on the front of the house in a bathroom. I've been here for 2 years and still don't have an attractive way to shield the users of said bathroom from curious eyes on the street. (Right now, there's waxed paper taped over it; that was a "temporary" solution I put up long ago!)

My other bathroom has a more traditional window, but I'd be likely to use the rest of the privacy film there.

This beautiful window film would restore my dog to mental health, save my marriage, and prevent me from murdering my next-door neighbor's small, yappy dog.

Almost two years ago, my now-husband and I agreed to foster a medium-sized, low-key, dog-friendly "shepherd terrier mix." Or so we thought. Maxie turned out to be a 60-pound pit bull terrified out of her mind (and aggressively so) of other dogs after suffering years of abuse.

We love her dearly, and so have spent a great deal of time training her to live in civilized company. Maxie's one remaining foe is Felix, the spoiled, obnoxious guinea pig of dog with whom we share a back porch. At his provocation, Maxie flies in to a blind rage, growling and slamming herself into the glass back door. His parents seem to find this adorable.

We can't permanently alter the glass on the door, and I'm pretty sure that dognapping a fellow resident's pet would get us thrown out of the condo association.

"Lov" is my only hope!

I was about to put in my bid--I am about to move into an apartment in which the one living room window, which is in the center of the building, faces another apartment ten feet away, and the one kitchen window faces Broadway--but I resign in favor of KristinaXI's friend. It sounds as if she needs this much more than I do.

Yet again, the sound of a chain saw gave me shivers. Whenever I hear that sound outside my 3rd floor window, it means bad news for my view. And this was no exception.

THREE trees cut down this time! So now I am able to see down the alley for a half block, all the cars parked in neighbors' back yards, garbage cans, street lights that come on at night and blind me through my kitchen window.

Oh how this window film would please me!

My living room window...the husband and I decided that we wanted the beautiful big room to be our study...it's coming out rather nicely, but now we moved our sofas and social area to a room that doesn't get too much light and faces the alley way were the garbage containers for the upstairs and next door people are...so there is traffic usually Sunday morning when I am dancing around in my underwear...some privacy would be nice...I am happy with our study and we both work from home somewhat..and the natural light is beautiful, but I am kind of sad that my living room is not as bright as I like it. I would love to use the film on my window and get rid of the curtain there and let there be light...

Ooo, how fun! I have been gushing over these window films for months!

We've just moved into a 1915 built home that is desperate for a little modern edge. On our front door, there is a large clear glass window out to the front poor where I'd love to use this product. Especially since any time we go to the bathroom in our undies, folks on the street can see us. Lucky them!

I have a large window over our master bathtub that is on the first flood and overlooks our driveway and neighbor's yard, that would be a great solution to our "over-exposed" area, we have blinds, but something more would be helpful and more asthetically pleasing. I love the design on the film!

Just this afternoon I was standing on the HVAC unit, painting "tequila lime" around the window in my kitchen (dressed in my usual painting attire of my bra and underwear-----easier to clean than clothing) and I look up to see two little boys waving at me from the window of an adjoining building. Poor kids. Damaged for life. So I would put the film in that window which should have SOMETHING there both for the obvious reason above and because the building next door is ugly and super close. ALSO, with it's leaf motif it would looks ever so splendind with the photo-mural papered tree-lined entrance hallway (which opens into the kitchen and the said window). Oh it would be swell! Thank you for all inspirations.

I live in a two-level loft with very high ceilings that I share with a roommate. Above the door to my bedroom is a large picture window which, while very attractive, has the disadvantage that anyone in the second-level of the loft could peer into my bedroom without much of a struggle.

Hanging a curtain over a window that doesn't face the outdoors seems weird to me, so I've lived with the risk that my roommate gets bored one night and watches me while I'm asleep -- or more likely, when I'm not asleep, and not by myself.

We're currently using a towel to cover up one of my bedroom windows to block the view from my neighbors who are about 5 feet away. I refuse to use heavy drapes because I need sunlight to help wake me in the morning. My other bedroom window faces our fire escape which scares the heck out of me at night. The film is a perfect and aesthetically pleasing solution for us!

We live next door to an elderly couple. You know what the elderly couple does for entertainment? Watch us and then give commentary to what we are doing. Going to bed too late, painting the kitchen even though we just painted a year ago, asking what kind of fish that was I cooking, etc. I need privacy but don't want to give up sunlight. This would be perfect. Plus it would not be so obvious to them that I am trying to shield them. They will just think it is some new fangled contraption that all the "kids" have now adays.

I have a tiny little bathroom with a big beautiful window that is covered with the ugliest blue-ish-greenish-faded-dirty film I've ever seen. As part of my cure I was hoping to finally get some film to put up and this stuff is lovely, it matches my leafy shower curtain perfectly!

Oh, these are beautiful!
The windows directly next to my bed are huge, and face directly onto: 1. a hideous falling down painted brown fence (ineffectually shored up with 2 by 4's), and 2. a church parking lot. It'd be lovely to have these so the poor church goers aren't subjected to seeing me bright and early and pre-shower each Sunday.

i've been wanting to buy the linnarp bookcase from ikea in red to store my handbags and things in my bedroom. i'm afraid that having everything exposed will give a cluttered look to my otherwise minimalistic room, so i have been looking for a chic window film to attach to the glass doors.

Yes, I am the victim of a long, dark, North-facing, overpriced, small, SF Victorian-ish flat. The kitchen's tall, drafty windows are one of the few places light enters my abode. To cover them with curtains would be criminal--although it would reduce some of the strain of the odd "never look 'em in the eye" relationship which has formed between my neighbors and I from from their bathroom to my kitchen sink. The thought of a bit of privacy, light and beauty (all in one) really excites me. I would love to adorn my windows with this film. Thanks for offering it in the Adornment Giveaway!

I live on the ground floor and by bedroom is next to the garbage bins with a great view of a brick wall. I smell trash from this window but if I do not have to look at it that would be a nice change. I have looked all around for alternatives to block my view, right now I have curtains that are dark to block out the light and every now and then when all the bins are empty I pretend I have a garden view with flowers, until the neighbors drop off the next round of garbage and wake me up from my daydreaming, so having this film to cover my reality would be a blessing I have surfed my sites but have never seen a giveaway that has been more needed than this. I have also never won anything. I work full time and go to school full time so money is extremly tight. I would appreiate any help you can offer me to obtain alittle relief from my surrounding. If I do not win this please give it to some who really needs it. And thanks for the temperary escape from a world of reality to view your great website. Looking forward to more great stuff from you. all

The student with the ground floor view.

I live in a roomy enough but otherwise somewhat hideous apartment, and I'll probably be here for a year or two. It's in Rockland County--in the woods. The bedroom is very dark, as most of it is dug into the hillside, and its one window (a double one) opens onto the world at ground level.

There are many coyotes in these woods. I know nothing about Coyote psychology, but for some reason that's shrouded in mystery, there's one coyote who loves to sniff around the bedroom window at night and peer in at me. Then he walks off a little and howls. Oh, my goodness! If I believed in animal spirit guides, I'd say that's it. At any rate, I really enjoy his appearances--I think they must be some kind of gilf--but one of my grandchildren came for an overnight, and I never thought to tell her about my new friend. I was in the kitchen, and she was reading in the bed, and her shriek was surely heard for miles around. Now she's afraid to come stay at grandma's.

I always sleep with my (screened) windows open, but if I put the Lov on the lower half, I could close the windows when my grandchildren come and preserve them from seeing the beast in the night. I haven't solved the howling issue yet in my mind. . . .

"Gift," not "gilf"!

I'd put this on my bathroom window, to replace the sad-looking blind that's there now.

We painted the bathroom earlier this year. Just waiting on the window treatment to declare it done!

OMG, I soooo need this.

I just moved into a very cool 2 story carriage house that I helped the owner plan the renovations of.

Even though it was a blank slate, there were tons of limitations imposed by the knee-level-up windows. Placement of the bathroom had to be where one of these windows are. There is one window dead center in my bathtub, from my shins up, that makes my every day shower a PEEPSHOW! More like a Full Exposure Show, lol.

This window faces the faces about 10 windows of the several row houses I'm behind. When I moved in a couple of weeks ago, I had a contractors bag there, it was ugly and dark.. Then I realized I have these awful Lilac Scented/Tinted trash can that are just thin and opaque enough to let in light. So I taped one to the lower half of the window and currently each morning, I shower to lilac colored (and scented, yuck) light coming through and my neighbors only see me from the shoulders up.

I'm a child of the 80's, and just about every morning I can't help but sing "Open Your Heart" by Madonna where she's doing the strip show in her video. LOL.

Please, save my neighbors from my lilac tinted Peepshow!
Thanks! =)

We are very lucky to have an apartment with light on two sides. Unfortunately, the window from our bedroom affords our neighbors and the office workers across the street a good view of things we would prefer remain hidden! A sheer curtain just doesn't cut it, privacy-wise. This window film would be just the ticket.

We're also redecorating the bedroom. We're putting Pax sliding doors on our closets, painting the walls (looking for a pale blue/green gray, if you have any suggestions), I'm making a padded headboard from a Joel Dewberry woodgrain fabric (a little postmodern fun), and have already installed the white tripod sconces from West Elm. Our bedding is a blue/green/white Indian floral/paisley pattern. The white leaf pattern would mix beautifully with the other elements in the bedroom. We would enjoy it, and I'm certain our neighbors would prefer that view to our bits and bobs on display.

I turn 40 this year so there's no way strangers want to see me naked anymore.

Definitely my bathroom window!

I'd use it on the clear glass table that my fiance refuses to relinquish and we really couldn't afford to replace anyway. I have no real issues with the bones of the piece, but there's something a little disconcerting about looking at your feet when you're eating dinner.

Placemats are invariably interfered with by the cats (though I've never caught the little monsters at it!), so something a little more permanent would be ideal. Neat giveaway.

I would love to put this on the glass-paneled door in my sons' room. Right now we have a towel hung up on the door and I'm tired of looking at Lightning McQueen.

Bathroom so neighbors can't peep, we have garbage bags up now and have been in the house over a year! So sad.